Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Sugar

I'm a commercial person, not an academic.

Jim Fiore

We have phenomenal resources, we put a half-million into new lockers, we're building a weight room and new academic center, ... We are doing a lot of the foundation work to get us prepared.

Kenneth Womack

When I figured out this was the first broad-based academic activity to do with Bruce, I was kind of shocked.

Andrew Joudrey

When I visited Wisconsin, I fell in love with the place. I liked the academics and the fact it had Big Ten sports. So I called Maine because I didn't want them to waste their money on me.

Mykal Riley

When I visited, I liked the coaches and all the players. I like the academic programs they have, too.

Sarah Steele

Acting is a lot of waiting to be picked, and I like to do a lot of things at once. I think I will have to find things that are totally mine. I have so much comfort that school and my academic life are totally mine. I hope that there's not a lot of idleness in my future.

Abby Wambach

My eldest sister Beth is a doctor who studied at Harvard and Columbia and played basketball for Harvard. She set the athletic and academic standard for the rest of us to follow.

Michael Kelly

When I was an undergraduate 30 years ago, the only role model was to become an academic like the people teaching us.

Ed Speleers

Education never really interested me, to be fair. I mean, education does interest me, but academic school study is a different thing. I can't quite grasp that.

Nicholas Burns

We strongly regret the measures taken by the parliament and government today to, in effect, introduce a state of emergency and to introduce censorship of the Albanian press.

Bahman Ghobadi

I always loved music, and I always wanted to make a film about it, but I could never do it because of the censorship that was around.

Jill Abramson

Secrets don't stay secrets very long, even when journalists decide to censor themselves.

Tom Ford

One of the most important lessons everyone can take from 'Fahrenheit 9/11,' whether they support the war in Iraq, oppose the war or are undecided, is that we need less censorship in this country, not more.

Potter Stewart

Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime.

Anthony Mizzi

Censorship is imposing on others to live as one wishes to live.

Ann Cooper

Censorship in China is nothing new, but the growing co-operation of U.S. technology companies in China's repressive policies is.

Tove Lo

I find it really cool when people have this artist persona they can put on. They can go out and act like this other person; I can't pull that off... I can't censor myself.

Felice Picano

Having a book censored means something. It means you have deeply offended one or more people who felt they needed to protect unsuspecting readers from your inflammatory words, thoughts, and images.

Donald Trump

We have a special site, a special location. We have a neighborhood that at first was concerned but now has embraced us for the most part.

Jack Lewis

We have some concerns about the use of the vehicles as this legislation is written. We will be talking to the sponsor and expressing our concerns and may be working something out.

Grady Little

We have some concern for Navarro. They're saying 10-to-14 days.

Todd Jaeger

We have some chain-link fences that are kind of high in back of the high school and we're concerned about kids getting hurt, so it's kind of a double-edged sword there.

Charlie Haden

I just see myself as a human being that's concerned about life.

Richard Cripps

We've seen a noticeable pickup in concern over the last two months.

Nicholas Burns

We have registered our concerns with the Indian government of course,

Navtej Sarna

We have received this offer and it will be examined in consultation with the concerned authority.

Don Roose

The real concern is that it is spreading. We have not been able to put the fire out yet, and to think we can sit here isolated, you would have to be naive.

Hugo Chavez

We have never had such an intense, frank and profound debate in the past seven years,

Kenneth Miller

Whenever you debate, you should really have one person representing I.D. on one side and 10,000 scientists on the other. That would give a fair representation of the division of opinion in the scientific community.

John Warhurst

We want others to know that the debate is not over and we want another referendum in due course.

Joe Solmonese

The real debate around this witch hunt isnt between us and the Vatican, its between the Vatican and the truth,

Craig Mathias

There is a lot of debate right now about who will have the right approach,

Elaine Sciolino

Even before September 11, there was a debate in the administration about whether or not military force should be used to oust Saddam Hussein. You're not going to find one person in the top echelons of the foreign policy and national security establishment in the U.S. government who's going to say that Saddam Hussein should not be out of power.

Eric Alterman

This trend of reporting process over substance is unfortunate, if omnipresent. Even worse is the media's inability - or unwillingness - to fact-check Republicans who are angry about the Democrats trying to debate and vote on Iraq policy.

Bill Nye

The debate [in Undeniable] was nominally about creationism as a "viable" explanation for what we observe around us. For my side, the debate went very well; I'm not sure what I would change, although I can imagine shortening my answers during the rebuttals, perhaps.

Deng Xiaoping

Do not debate! is one of my inventions.

Michael Chertoff

Obviously, people feel strongly about their home communities and they tend to see their own risks to the exclusion of others. Our job is to balance.

Lex McCorvey

There is a general feeling that this is more often referred to as an 'open space district' to the exclusion of agricultural preservation. Our feeling is that it has strayed from its original intent." ()

Gary Gallegos

It doesn't necessarily have to be one to the exclusion of the other.

David Sands

For a 'married filing-jointly' couple, who've lived in the home two out of the last five years, the exclusion from gain would be about $500,000. For those who are single, $250,000.

Doug Jones

The scope of his new proposal has grown so much that there's no way we can do it with a Categorical Exclusion (CE).

Moby

To choose one type of music at the exclusion of another would feel kind of sad and arbitrary.

Mason Cooley

Elegance thrives on exclusion.

Lily Tomlin

I'd rather have the illusion that (politicians) had ideas and high inspirations and principals, that they foster something in people that makes them want to be part of it instead of all of this exclusion stuff, which is really horrible. Everyone's not the same.

Lou Reed

Me, I've concentrated on music pretty much to the exclusion of other things.

Carol Moseley Braun

People just want to hear some common sense... and I bring to bear the experience in local government and state government and national government - I was the first woman in history on the Senate Finance Committee - not to mention the diplomatic international experience.

Carlos Fuentes

No government functions without the grease of corruption.

Carl Bernstein

The Congress is a dysfunctional institution; its broken. One of our three branches of government is broken.

Carl Bernstein

Public policy in the twentieth century was about protecting and expanding the social compact, based on recognition that effective government at the federal level provides rules and services and safety measures that contribute to a better society.

Ahmad Chalabi

We want to see a national-unity government for the sake of stability,

Laura Bush

We have much more work to do, ... But the people who have been hurt by this storm . . . need to know that the government is going to be with you for the long haul.

Stephen Kinzer

What the United States wanted in Guatemala - and in Iran, where the C.I.A. also deposed a government in the early 1950s - was pro-American stability.

Abu Hassan

We want salaries. We want the government to live up to its responsibilities.

Aaron Sorkin

Government should be a place where people can come together, and no one gets left behind. No one…gets left behind. An instrument of good.

Atharva Veda

WHEN you scatter seeds on the surface of the soil, they do not germinate; you have to keep them inside the soil.

Chauncey Billups

We were trying to go to him, inside and outside. We were going to keep going to him until he got tired.

Aaron Rodgers

When I'm out there, you just have to react. That's why you work on those throws. When you're in the moment, you can't think to yourself, 'How do I get this to go 47 yards and be 2 yards inside the sideline?'

The Mighty Hannibal

If I'm talking to you, I can't see you, but I can see inside of you and what you're thinking. That's a mixed blessing.

Libba Bray

I was a big reader as a kid, but it was 'Charlotte's Web' that showed me you could feel as if you were actually living inside a book.

John Lydon

I'm sort of of the belief that people kill themselves from the inside out. When they're unhappy with what they're doing, or not achieving things - when your focus is off-kilter. The thing that keeps me ticking is my values. And I maintain them, because they're worthy. I like to wake up and feel I've done no wrong. I like that feeling.

Henry Thomas

We struggled from the perimeter, we struggled inside we struggled on the boards. We struggled every place tonight.

Takeru Kobayashi

The one thing that's broken inside of me is that I've lost the signal most people have to feel hungry or feel full.

Natassia Malthe

I'm very kinesthetic, and when you're that way, you just feel it in your body. I know that other actors think with the logical part of their brain, but I wear my character inside my body, even when I'm away from the set.

Mickey Mantle

Mr. Mantle, do you have any observations with reference to the application of antitrust laws to baseball?

John Dingell

Mr. Pitt got in trouble. If he is not doing the job, sees to it that security laws are properly enforced, it's time for him to depart.

Kenneth Langone

A lawsuit with no legal precedent, seeking no damages, from no jury, in the name of stopping something that isn't happening? Only in New York.

Rig Veda

Only that person is preferred as a leader, who adheres by laws and rules.

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers in the first place.

Domingo Garcia

When you have unjust laws and unjust actions, people take to the streets.

Mark McCormack

We thought the lawsuit was pretty frivolous." ()

Anthony Romero

Unfortunately, as our lawsuit shows today, those statements are patently false.

Ellen Key

All thoughtful persons perceive that the ideas of the morality of sexual relations upheld by the religions and laws of the Western nations are in our time undergoing a radical transformation.

Jacalyn Barnett

When someone sues outside their marriage, it's sometimes a way ... to manipulate public perceptions to try to get somebody to be intimidated into a settlement that you otherwise might not have gotten.

Ahmed Zewail

Once we understand how molecules are formed, we can manipulate them. If you can manipulate molecules, you can manipulate genes and matter, you can synthesize new material - the implications are just unbelievable.

Anders Hejlsberg

Metaprograms are programs that manipulate themselves or other programs as data.

Charles Saatchi

I have spent too long being able to manipulate the answers I want from market research to rely upon its findings any more than I do weather forecasts.

Sylvia Plath

One should be able to control and manipulate experiences with an informed and intelligent mind.

Anthony Bourdain

I would frankly be shocked if Donald Trump even knows how to use chopsticks or is even able to manipulate them with those tiny little fingers.

Paul Watson

People say I manipulate the media. Well, duh. We live in a media culture, so why on earth wouldn't I?

Juan Enriquez

If you want to compete in bioinformatics, first you need to compete for really smart people. You need really smart people who understand how to manipulate nanomolecules.

Oleg Vasiliev

If you were able to manipulate the 6.0 system, you can manipulate this, as well.

Carole Bouquet

Political debate is of no interest to me. What I want are practical solutions.

Carlos Mencia

Hurricane Katrina was caused by political correctness. I said it!

Carl Bernstein

Radical thought has inspired many of the great political and social reform movements in American history, from ending slavery to establishing the minimum wage.

Carl Andre

Matter as matter rather than matter as symbol is a conscious political position, essentially Marxist.

C. S. Lewis

The claim to equality, outside of the strictly political field, is made only by those who feel themselves to be in some way inferior.

Charles W. Pickering

A healthy democracy requires a decent society; it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful.

Charles Dickens

Keep up appearances whatever you do.

Charles Dickens

Sudden shifts and changes are no bad preparation for political life.

Susan B. Anthony

I have many things to say. My every right, constitutional, civil, political and judicial has been tramped upon. I have not only had no jury of my peers, but I have had no jury at all.

Toby Dawson

We are here representing the United States. The whole world is watching us.

Chris Chocola

Madam Speaker, before being elected to Congress, I ran a manufacturing business that did a significant percentage of our sales outside the United States.

Charlaine Harris

Episcopalians are pretty thin on the ground in the central United States.

Bruce Springsteen

You can't have a United States if you are telling some folks that they can't get on the train. There is a cracking point where a society collapses.

Charles Rangel

The United States is historically a nation of immigrants.

Madeleine Albright

I have always seen the United States as a force of good. And I have learned that there is the idealistic part about what we can do at the U.N. and there is a doable part. And I have learned what is more doable.

Hillary Clinton

There is no part of the world that is irrelevant to the United States anymore.

Dominique de Villepin

I grew up in the United States.

Denis McDonough

The bottom line is this. When it comes to preventing violent extremism and terrorism in the United States, Muslim Americans are not part of the problem, you're part of the solution.

Alan Chambers

One of the many evils this world has to offer is the sin of homosexuality. Satan, the enemy is using people to further his agenda to destroy the Kingdom of God and as many souls as he can.

Bernard Meltzer

Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best.

Jon Johansen

Basically, if I have no intention of using a service then I won't bother reverse-engineering it.

Alfred Hershey

That's the nice thing about doing research. Whatever you do is novel, so you always have this sense of novelty, even if you are only using a new gadget.

James Rayner

We're still using Windows 98 here. We just need some equipment.

Andrew Mason

I find myself using the word 'executives' now.

Aerin Lauder

I think every woman should be using a foundation, whether it's liquid or compact.

Ban Ki-moon

We are using resources as if we had two planets, not one. There can be no 'plan B' because there is no 'planet B.'

Lucy Liu

When you work with chains or any kind of weapons, or just when you're using hand-to-hand combat, you are going to get hurt.